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Authors
Heinrich Heine
German
Poet
About the author
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Action
#Thought
#Men
#Unconscious
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#World
#Evil
#Money
#Fact
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Bible
#Family
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Talk
#May
#Man
#Talking
#Fool
#Eloquence
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Death
#Sleep
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Death
#Sleep
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#March
#Music
#Battle
#Wedding
#Soldiers
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#God
#Will
#Job
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#End
#Men
#Books
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Lies
#Kisses
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#People
#World
#Fools
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Nothing
#Saying
#Eloquence
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#End
#May
#Tears
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Music
#Battle
#Soldiers
#Weddings
When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Words
#Music
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Will
#End
#Books
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#People
#Will
#Revolution
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Woman
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#People
#Death
#Language
#Hunger
#Envy
#Communism
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Heroes
#Clowns
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Man
#Sense
#Religion
#Terror
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Experience
#School
Atheism is the last word of theism.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Word
#Atheism
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Sea
#Matrimony
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
God will forgive me; that's his business.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#God
#Will
#Business
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#God
#Will
#Job
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Fiction
#Genius
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Criticism
#Values
#Praise
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Men
#Faith
#Misery
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Reading
#Boredom
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Being
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Character
#Will
#Day
#Women
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Time
#World
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Time
#Miracles
#Reason
#Spirit
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Ideas
#Fight
#Newspapers
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Nature
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Man
#Girls
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Divinity
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Woman
#Ugly
#Battle
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Heinrich Heine,
German
Poet
#Now
#Christ